#and even trying to get the viewable cutscenes in game is a fucking insane pain in the ass ITS NOT WORTH IT EITHER

[ninashiki]

im so crushed rn because ?!??!? the obscure utena sega saturn game had new anime cutscenes, right? BUT THE ORIGINAL RESOLUTION WAS 240X168!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN .CAK SEGA VIDEO CINEPAK. before converting to a common file type so it can be uploaded to youtube or even any upscale attempt. but there is no upscaling with something like that. the detail literally just ISN’T there. without the uncompressed animation from the devs, it will never look good. even in-game, the cutscenes you do see have an overlay, so they’re literally smaller than the native resolution of the saturn, and THEN, not even every cutscene can play in game!!! i’m pretty sure the losing duel cutscenes went unused, since in game if the duels are lost you get immediate game over without a cutscene or anything. it’s so fucked. i think the only way you’d be able to “upscale” the cutscenes is if you’d manually redraw every frame by hand (which btw, how the FUCK would you do that???) which would take FOREVER even if they recycled as much animation as they possibly could. 

how do you blow that up without it exploding

#because the original has sooooooo much noise if you tried to redraw the frames one by one youd have to take so many artistic liberties.... #also im gonna be honest i think the blurry loss of detail of low res upscaling looks gross as hell esp in video #in still images it can be more passable but in video no man it looks horrible #with low res at least your brain can fill in the blanks but the blurry blend of like; waifu or video2x looks soooooooooooooooooooooo URGH #and it fucking SUCKS because these cutscenes and other old game cutscenes DESERVE to look good #to be preserved most importantly! #like months and months ago i uploaded the sega saturn game cutscenes to youtube and to avoid youtube blowing it up to hell i had to make it #a tiny box in the middle of a still image #and it looks terrible but it would look 10000000x worse with an upscale attempt #240x168 literally kill yourself sega saturn #you could probably use the anime as reference for the background colors i guess or fight effects but wtf man that would take 5 years #its literally not worth it #i love love love utena and these cutscenes are so cool but ITS NOT WORTH IT #the worst part is that im sure the uncompressed animation no longer exists since its been almost 2 decades #.txt #ironically tumblr decided to make that image larger in the post preview anyway -_- #and even trying to get the viewable cutscenes in game is a fucking insane pain in the ass ITS NOT WORTH IT EITHER